A British bride-to-be said was devastated by the news of her fiancé's death — until she learned he placed the call himself.

A British bride is still picking up the pieces from a break-up so bad it wouldn’t even work in a movie.

English-born Alex Lanchester, 23, was set to marry Connecticut native Tucker Blandford, 23, until she got a call a few months ago that he had thrown himself in front of a car, the Daily Mail reports.

“I picked up my phone and there was a man saying he was Tucker’s dad. He told me Tucker had been deeply depressed and wanted to die, so had thrown himself in front of a car,” Lanchester told the U.K. paper. “The man explained that they had been trying to send Tucker off to a psychiatric unit for help. But it was too late. I couldn’t breathe. It was absolutely devastating.”

Then, when Lanchester tried to call his parents to offer her condolences, she found out her one-time fiancé was alive and well.

The pair would have been wed Friday, August 15, 2014. Lanchester — an aspiring model — had bought a dress, picked out bridesmaids frocks and the pair were set to wed on the American college campus where they had met.

Then, Blandford ended things in quite possibly the most cowardly way possible.

“He has shattered my trust and I’m not sure I’ll ever be in a relationship again. All I ever did was love him. I’m so sick of being messed around and I’m glad to be rid of him,” Lanchester said.

Blandford told the Daily Mail he was “scared” and at least seems to realize what a dick he was.

“I’m a terrible, awful person. I know I shouldn’t have told her I was dead, but I didn’t know what else to do,” Blandford said. “Alex is an amazing girl but I got scared and wanted to get out of the relationship. It was moving extremely fast and with us being in different countries, it was really hard.”